make-belief

At times we may be fooled by Photoshopped images of trashcan lids masquerading as spaceships, but skilled craftsmen building make-belief film sets to imitate large landscapes understand that the way light falls, or how a fabric folds, and the manner of gravity on a mote of dust can give the game away.

Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011

The fascination with doll's houses is that we glorify our need for tidying and collecting objects with imperial strokes and a make-belief sense of omniscience.

Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011

If not entirely immune to the latest Prada handbag then, Sachs is far more consumed by his next project of a make-belief odyssey, 'Space Program 2.0: Mars,' about to transform the cavernous interior of the Park Avenue Armory in New York next year.

Kisa Lala: Keeping Time With Tom Sachs: An Interview With the Artist Kisa Lala 2011

If not entirely immune to the latest Prada handbag then, Sachs is far more consumed by his next project of a make-belief odyssey, 'Space Program 2.0: Mars,' about to transform the cavernous interior of the Park Avenue Armory in New York next year.

Kisa Lala: Keeping Time With Tom Sachs: An Interview With the Artist Kisa Lala 2011

At times we may be fooled by Photoshopped images of trashcan lids masquerading as spaceships, but skilled craftsmen building make-belief film sets to imitate large landscapes understand that the way light falls, or how a fabric folds, and the manner of gravity on a mote of dust can give the game away.

Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011

The fascination with doll's houses is that we glorify our need for tidying and collecting objects with imperial strokes and a make-belief sense of omniscience.

Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011

What happens to each of the characters is a consequence of the world he or she believes in, that virtual realm of make-belief bereft of narrative drama.

Fame by Daniel Kehlman, translated by Carol Brown Janeway Alberto Manguel 2010

Henrik and Karolina Finkel, having seen their parents and siblings wiped out not long after the German invasion, disguised themselves as Catholics and lived a make-belief life outside the Warsaw Ghetto.

Commemorating the victims and the survivors 2009

Henrik and Karolina Finkel, having seen their parents and siblings wiped out not long after the German invasion, disguised themselves as Catholics and lived a make-belief life outside the Warsaw Ghetto.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

However, when a person possessed of the levels of visual talent, of imagination, of intelligence and of humor that Truthseeker so obviously is, becomes entangled in this magical mesh of make-belief the outcome becomes what I have tried to feebly describe above.

"at home" with Truthseeker Young Alpha Auer 2008